Artificial Intelligence

PYMNTS covers artificial intelligence as it transforms payments, commerce and financial services, from generative AI and agentic commerce to fraud detection, underwriting and customer engagement. Our reporting pairs breaking news with proprietary data and expert analysis to examine how AI is reshaping business models, operational efficiency and competitive dynamics across the connected economy.
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Anthropic Could Land Nvidia as $10 Billion IPO Investor
September 13, 2026

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to have Nvidia invest in its landmark stock market listing. The chipmaker would come on as an anchor investor for Anthropic’s initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources said Anthropic...

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Nvidia Becomes the World’s Most Active $100 Million-Plus VC Investor
September 11, 2026

Five years ago, GPU maker Nvidia participated in just one venture funding round worth $100 million or more. Through the first eight months of 2026, the artificial intelligence ecosystem giant has reportedly participated in at least 53. That puts the semiconductor company ahead of Andreessen...

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Rivian’s AI Agents Cut 15 Days From Every Close
September 11, 2026

Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian automated one of the more tedious jobs in corporate finance: tracking how much to set aside for custom manufacturing tools it has ordered but not yet received a bill for. Rivian built an artificial intelligence system on Amazon Bedrock and eliminated...

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OpenAI Targets the Work Junior Bankers Do
September 11, 2026

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services Thursday (Sept. 10), according to an announcement on its website. The product is a tailored version of ChatGPT Work, built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners. It runs on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest model, and combines it...

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Sam Altman Floats Industrywide Pause as Frontier AI Safety Concerns Grow
September 11, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. Altman said that he hopes other AI labs will join OpenAI in the slowdown,...

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Squint’s Founder Turns Factory Know-How Into AI’s Starting Point
September 11, 2026

Ask a veteran factory technician how to fix a machine that’s acting up, and the answer might sound less like an engineering manual and more like folklore: if it smells like this, hit it three times on the left side and it comes back to...

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Anthropic Reports Chinese Labs Clone Claude Capabilities on Industrial Scale
September 10, 2026

Seven labs based in China have targeted Anthropic’s generally available Claude models in illicit distillation attacks, Anthropic said in a report released Thursday (Sept. 10). Unauthorized labs use illicit distillation to extract and mimic capabilities from frontier models, without having to invest the time, computational...

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AI Agents Need Permissioned Funding Sources. Not Company Bank Accounts.
September 10, 2026

The trillion-dollar question hovering around agentic commerce is why agents would hold money at all. After all, if a multinational eventually operates, say, 10,000 artificial intelligence agents buying software, booking travel, procuring inventory, managing advertising and negotiating with suppliers; then funding 10,000 separate accounts would...

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OpenAI Focuses On Investment Banking Ahead of Wider Financial Services Rollout
September 10, 2026

OpenAI has introduced a tailored ChatGPT Work experience designed for financial institutions, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. ChatGPT for Financial Services is initially focused on investment banking and equity research, and it is designed to help bankers develop research, financial...